SAMUEL WEST

THEATRE INCLUDES: Hamlet and Richard II (RSC), The Family Reunion and Betrayal (Donmar), Drunk Enough
to Say I Love You (Public Theater New York), A Number (Sheffield), The Master and Margarita and Doctor
Faustus (Chichester), Arcadia and The Sea (National), Journey’s End and Mr Cinders (King’s Head), Henry IV
Parts I & II (ETT/Old Vic).
TELEVISION INCLUDES: Desperate Romantics, New Tricks, Margaret Thatcher – The Long Walk to Finchley,
Random Quest, Cambridge Spies, Waking the Dead, Longitude, Hornblower, Over Here and Persuasion.
FILMS INCLUDE: Schweitzer, Van Helsing, Iris, Notting Hill, Howards End, Pandæmonium, Jane Eyre and Carrington.
RADIO: over 40 plays, including Otherkin, Bomber and The Homecoming.
AS A RECITER: has appeared with all the major British orchestras.
DIRECTING INCLUDES: Waste (Almeida), The Lady’s Not for Burning (Chichester), Dealer’s Choice (Chocolate
Factory/Trafalgar Studios) and The Magic Flute (Palestine Mozart Festival). From 2005 – 2007 Artistic
Director of Sheffield Theatres: The Romans in Britain, Insignificance, The Clean House and As You Like It (also
RSC).